[1][2] In 2018, Max Hastings wrote that American historian Ed Moise was "convinced that the entire story of Lem murdering the Tuan family was a postwar South Vietnamese propaganda fabrication.

"[4] Thereafter, Nguyen lived with his uncle, a colonel in the South Vietnam Air Force, until 1975 when they fled to the United States after the Fall of Saigon.

[3] In 2020, Nguyen was inducted into OSU's College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Hall of Fame and received the school's highest honor, the Melvin R. Lohmann Medal.

[7] Nguyen was inspired to join the United States Navy after witnessing the sailors and Marines who cared for his family en route to the US in 1975.

Nguyen served as executive officer and chief engineer for Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (CREW), field office in Camp Victory, supporting Multi-National Corps – Iraq, where he was instrumental in the stand-up of Joint CREW Composite Squadron One at the Fleet Electronic Warfare Center.